Hi guys, I had pretty good success with my DIY foam cutter. So I made a nasty quick video of it for those that may want to try it.

If you need to cut foam, THIS is the way to go. Remember that some foams will produce very toxic fumes. You must either wear an appropriate respirator or verify that your particular foam is safe. Mine is.

Click here to watch the video - 5.2Megs WM9 320x240 400Kbs

Enjoy! (PS- This video is being served off of a new Edge Network Streaming Media Service! - very cool stuff indeed as it pushes the video out to the video server nearest your location before streaming it.)

Steve - that's a great bit of video! Very helpful and informative for those facing this depth of build.

Car is looking and taking shape nicely.

ATB <Steve>

I thought it explains it effectively. Thanks.

How did the video download for you? Quickly? Curious to know how it delivers across the pond.

buffered for approx 40 seconds then played straight through fine. Streaming was way in advance of playback - no probs!

Took about 4 secs to start on a 1 mb Broadband connection. Nice motor!

Awesome!



Graber

Steve - I was also downloading "something" at 53kbps! So with hindsight it was very fast!

It's almost eerie watching the car emerge in the flesh, so to speak

Great choice of materials and methods, Steve. Lots of time on the computer, but it's paying off now!

I wonder if anyone will be inspired to body their Locost chassis (a la the Ginetta)?

Pete

looking good steve, the video started nearly instantly on my 100mb connection..

Ned.

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It's almost eerie watching the car emerge in the flesh, so to speak

Great choice of materials and methods, Steve. Lots of time on the computer, but it's paying off now!

I wonder if anyone will be inspired to body their Locost chassis (a la the Ginetta)?

Pete

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Hey....good stuff there bud...

Works well, looks great.......

Although I must admit I did enjoy sweeping up the 10 million tiny crumbs that I created cutting mine with a hacksaw blade....yeah right..

Like a hot knife through butter!

Car looks amazing, wish i had the time paitence and money!

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Like a hot knife through butter!

Car looks amazing, wish i had the time paitence and money!

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I did think that when i post it, but then i thought the amount of times i would go wrong, i would waste so much material. I must say you two have inspired me to one day design and build my own car. Doesnt look that hard!

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........ I must say you two have inspired me to one day design and build my own car. Doesnt look that hard!

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This has gotten quite off topic and is worth a topic all of it's own. But you started it! SO I will play along.

Of course a complete build will take longer than a kit. The truth is that since you are building everything, you actually will save money, but not time. This is because you are not paying for someone elses mortgage, insurance, groceries, yada yada... with your hard earned cash. That's what happens when you buy pre-built.

IMHO - They key to success is to segmentize the project into chunks of tasks that you can emotionally handle.
You also have to set milestones so that you can reach them and be proud of yourself. Notice that I had to build a running car before I even started thinking about the body. It's like two completely seperate project.

Trust me though, the only thing I have going for myself over many people (Not anyone on this list though), is a pit-bull like tendency to not drop anything that I am working on. For me, failure is NOT an option. And I literally have a budget of about $50 month. I have spent less than $1,200 completely on my project so far. And expect to have a street legal car completed for under $2,000.

Steve